China Uses Digital SWAT Teams To Fight Porn

“China has launched a fresh month- long crackdown on online pornography and fake news organisations in 11 provincial-level regions to clean up “harmful” information, an official said today. Four teams of inspectors are undertaking the probe into online pornography and fake news organisations across 11 Chinese provincial-level regions.

The month-long investigation, which will finish on May 26, aims to clean up “harmful” information online, targeting live-streaming, cloud service providers, mobile apps and websites circulating pornographic content, the National OfficeAgainst Pornographic and Illegal Publications said in a statement.”